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OT-RIP Mitch's Place

The Michigan Daily is reporting that Mitch's Place on South U abruptly closed for good last night because of money issues and the recession.

Mitch's was kind of trashy and I don't think it was anybody's favorite bar in Ann Arbor (or even on South U), but nonetheless who among us can't say that some nights we just randomly ended up at Mitch's?

I, for one, know that I'll miss their cheapish drinks and strange location. And hopefully Packard Pub ends up being a good bar when it opens.

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I remember this place fondly, I think there was some kind of special on Tuesdays so we always went then. Although that was back in 2004 so I could be completely off on which night my friends and I went.

it's where the old Princeton Review offices were. I used to go straight from my Princeton Review class across the street to Mitch's on wednesdays. $1 pitchers were incredible. Then it shut down for a year (2005) and then moved to the other corner above Bubble Tea.

Not that it was just their choice, but the new locale was doomed for failure. The best part of Mitch's was the view...

Man, are there any cool bars left in Ann Arbor? I mean, ones you can do more than drink? (Sure, Red Hawk has a great selection of beers...but not a good place to watch the game). Touchdown's become the Blue Leprechaun (really?), Mitch's gone...Rick's and Scorekeepers have always sucked...Charlie's keeps changing it's set up every other year... I guess if you want a good Irish Bar, we've got that, but other than that...

Couple of places have pool tables tucked away in them, but that's the size of it these days.

Bubble Island has a better social scene than half the bars out there, at least they have games. I fond memories of spiking my green tea with booze and playing Jenga or Hungry Hungy Hippos until they closed down. It sure beat sitting around in The Jug inhaling smoke, although peeing in the trough is a required right of passage in AA.

I believe it was closed for a bit over the summer because they were doing some remodeling, but it's definitely still open. Went there just the other day (with the lady, of course). I do love their mochi ice cream. Delicious.

No, no, Bubble Island is still there. In fact a competing place took over half of Middle Earth.

Bubble Island is really underrated for meeting girls. It's 100x easier to get some cute girls to sit down and play a board game with you than it is to try to talk to a girl in some smokey bar while your friends scream at you to do shots with him.

For you youngins, go to Bubble Island with a couple friends, ideally a mixed gender group so as to advertise to girls that at least some girls can stand to be around you, grab multiplayer game and invite little clusters of girls to play with you.

I wish it had been around when I was a student. I would have spent every sober moment there. (Touchdown's, get drunk, sober up at Tea, meet women, get rejected, go back to Touchdown's to get drunk again...). Wouldn't even have had to go back to the apartment (both of mine were closest to South U anyway); didn't sleep anyway.

Because if you're young, and only knew it when the Greek mafia had bought it and everything up (like the dark days of the Brown Jug too), then yah, it sucked. Tried to turn it into a New York style club.

If you're old enough to remember when it was a sports bar with chairs and tabled, and the cool murals on the walls, when it was about the games and supplemented it with some Friday night dancing, then, well, you're wrong. 10 cent wings, trivia, and the hottest wait staff in town.

But by the time it became The B.L., it was a mercy killing. Though calling the place that kinda pisses on it's grave.

Best selection of beers is Ashley's, but that has the game problem. I think Charley's is the best bar on campus for watching games and/or just hanging out, but it'd be nice if they reacquired that other section that's been vacant since it reopened. My favorite bar in AA is Conor O'Neill's, hands down. One of my favorite times ever was when St. Patrick's Day was on the first Saturday of March Madness. Good friends, good beer, good food (Irish breakfast!!!), good games, and good music. Perfect day - plus I think it was in the mid-fifties that day too.

Whether it's the layout, the flow, the tv setup, the location...for some reason that place has never done it for me. I "should" like it, as it's a true sports bar. Maybe it just never had that college town vibe to me, and felt too much like a bar in any other town, in decor and staff.

Female GSIs wearing their favorite team's jersey from around the country while they check papers and get entirely too excited about their team and greasy bar food = college town vibe to me. But fair play, if you don't like it you don't like it. I just feel like a lot of people haven't even tried it when they should.

Why anybody over the age of 21 goes to any of the South U bars (unless it's to get laid at Rick's) is beyond me, frankly. I suppose Charley's has decent drink specials after 10.

It was my favorite bar back when it was at the old spot and I lived at South Forest and South U. I love how it kept the metal bikes as decoration from the building's days as "Bicycle Jim's." It will be missed.

Same here, back in '02. A nice little off-the-beaten path bar if you didn't want to deal with the usual meat markets like Rick's, and playing quarters was always a nice time-waster. I also remember getting hammered enough that I apparently started acting like a Zamboni and cleaning the tables with a little roar. Not my proudest moment, but it is a little sad to hear the bar is closing.

...of opening a bar in that area for years. Nothing particular close for those that live down there (like I did), closest bar during sporting events, and when they're not going on, the bar most likely to attract athletes (thus most likely to attract girls, and thus everybody else). Could have made a mint...rather than the tons of stuff that has been on that corner.

But then, I wanted to open a BW3's, before they were everywhere...and even like the location it's in now, but they weren't interested in selling/renting till they developed it as it is now. But that was empty for years, too.

What is that taking over? Only thing I can think of is taking over the place next to Moe's Sporting Goods (was a bread place, but may have changed over the past couple of years). Regardless, that place should make a killing as there are no bars down that way.

Ah Mitch's (the old one); one of my favorite old haunts back in college. Closed 2nd semester my senior year and I was despondent. How else was I going to get ultra cheap pitchers on Monday's and Wednesday's? I contributed my fair share of nicks on tables in the bar due to playing quarters all the time. Man I miss that place; so many good times.